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education, language, and social class in contemporary India
1 online resource (xix, 215 pages) : illustrations.
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of "medium," the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division a.
Chapter 1 -- On Mother and Other Tongues: Language Ideology, Inequality, and Contradiction; Chapter 2 -- Disparate Markets: The Uneven Resonance of Language-Medium Schooling in the Nation; Chapter 3 -- Advertising in the Periphery: Modes of Communication and the Production of School Value; Chapter 4 -- An Alter Voice: Questioning the Inevitability of the Language-Medium Divide; Chapter 5 -- In and Out of the Classroom: A Focus on English; Conclusion; References; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural